The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

78 THE YOUNG LADY's COUNSELLOR.
tainty winch attaches to the particular acts of life.
It shows a careless word prolific
of highly beneficial
results, bringing joy lO many hearts. In like manner,
a careless wora may do evil. Hence, we never
know the real importance of our own acts. We cannot
judge which of them will be most influential. A
truth that invests every detail of life with moral
grandeur, and demands the liveliest attention to our
minutest actions.
Permit me, young lady, to ask you how you are
to wield this tremendous element of power, with benefit
to others, unless you do it by the aid of Divine
grace ? How can you consecrate it to goodness, unless
the Almighty Spirit of goodness imparts the
power? How can you attain the wise thoughtfulness,
the lofty aim, the
unselfish motive, the resolute
will, so essential to right influence, unless from the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit of love, wisdom and
purity? How can you, so weak, so thoughtless, so
inexperienced, safely guard and rightly expend, this
priceless treasure; in your own unassisted strength ?
It is impossible ! You could as easily create an